Type belt



(ModeL) S. H. HOGGSON.

TYPE BELT.

No. 453,699. Patented June 9,1891.

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Attes t Inventor c///Z/gw% ama UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL II. HOGGSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IVILLIAM H. STEVENSON, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,699, dated June 9, 1891.

Application filed August 29, 1890. Serial No. 363,440. (ModeL) To aZZ whom, it may concern.- when the improvement is carried out to its Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. IIOGGSON, fullest extent the material is extended of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and through the meshes of the textile fabric of useful Improvement in Type-Belts, of which which the strip is preferably composed, and

5 the following is a full, clear, and exact dethe projections upon the inner side of the fabscription. ric are respectively integral with the types The improvement consists substantially as upon the outer side of the fabric. I desire is hereinafter described and claimed, aided not to be restricted to abelt of any particular by the annexed drawings, making part of dimensions, for, While this belt isnotably use- To this specification and exhibiting the most deful in contracted spaces, it can, so far as some sirable form of the belt, and in whichat least of its features are concerned, be made Figure I is a face view of the belt; Fig. II, of almost any size and used accordingly.

aview of the opposite or inner side of the belt; Neither do I wish to be confined to a textile Fig. III, an edge elevation of the belt; and fabric in the construction of the strip, so long 15 Fig. IV, a View upon an enlarged scale, showas the material employed for the strip is sufing a section of the belt in longitudinal secficiently flexible to serve as abelt and adapted tion. to be provided with the projections upon its The same letters of reference denote the inner side, nor, again, to rubber in the formasame parts. tion of the types and of the projections, pro- 20 My aim, in part, is to provide an inarticuvided the substance used is adapted forprintlated belt, or belt made in acontinuous piece, ing and the types are separated from each capable of being moved more evenly and other upon the belt or the belt is provided with more certainty than can be belts hitherto with the projections upon its inner side. It in use. is preferable, however, to use a textile fabric 25 Another object is to provide a type-carryfor the strip, and to separate the types from ing belt that shall in its movement cause the each other upon the strip, and to make the types to come successively into position for types and their corresponding projections, use with more precision and regularity than respectively, integral and of rubber. For the types of the ordinary type-carrying belt. thereby a very desirable belt is obtained for 3c The improvement is especially adapted to usein mechanisms inwhich exactness of moverubber-type belts. Afeature of the construement is essential. A time-dating stamp is a tion is the making of the belt in parts. The mechanism to which the present improverubber type are mounted upon a continuous ment is especially adaptable. strip of a substance-such as a textile fab- A represents a strip of textile fabric.

35 ricless liable to stretch and less liable to B B B represent the types upon the outer crack than is rubber. Another feature is the side of the strip. separation of the types, so that they are sub- O O C represent the projections upon the stantially disconnected from each other, inner side of the strip. The bodies of the thereby enabling the belt in its use to be type can, in shape, be varied to suit the size 4o turned more or less sharply around angular and style of the type, and they can be conbearings without straining the projections of structed to form or be provided with any which the types, respectively, are part. An types or characters or other parts which it is additional feature is the making of the prodesired to have applied to the belt and to be jections which are used upon the inner side brought into use in its movement. The pro- 45 of the strip to insure the proper movement jections upon the inner side of the belt may of the belt integral with the material upon also be variously shaped so long as they are the outer side of the strip. respectively opposite the types and so long as The improvement is more fully carried out they shall properly coaet with the bearings when the union between the projections and over which the belt is Worked in its use. The I00 50 material is accomplished by extending the projections 0 enable the belt to be operated material through openings in the strip, and after the manner of a sprocket-wheel belt.

manner not calculated to endanger the integrity of the belt.

In Fig. III the broken lines D indicate a mode in which the belt can be bent at points between the types. The belt shown is especially adapted to a time-dating stamp. It

renders it feasible to e nploy a comparatively compact mechanism for that purpose, and it enables two or more of the belts to be used upon the same shaft in perfect alignment with each other. I

An additional feature of the belt is the separation from each other of the projections C. These projections preferably not only have no direct connection with each other, but they preferably are also made without anything like a fillet or lateral extension upon the inner side of the strip or band A, as shown.

I clain1 1-. Atype-carryingbelthavingitstypesupon the outer side and projectionsupon the inner side of a strip, said types and projections being respectively opposite eachother, and said types and also said projections being substantially spaced apart from each other upon said strip, substantially as described. 2. Atype-carryingbelthavingitstypesupon the outer side and projections upon the inner side of a strip, said types and projections being respectively opposite each other and integral, and said types and also said projections being substantially spaced apart from each other upon said strip, substantially as described.

3. A rubber-type belt having its types upon the outer side and projections upon the inner side of a textile fabric strip, said types and also said projections being substantially spaced apart from each other upon said strip, and the spaces between said projections being respectively opposite the spaces between said types, substantially as described.

Witness my hand this th day of August, 1890. r

SAMUEL H. HOGGSON.

Witnesses:

C. D. MooDY, A. BONVILLE. 

